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Munching on gefilte fish and challah, over 600 Harvard affiliates—Jews and gentiles alike—packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath...
...particular rub. Laws touted as evenhanded appear to tilt in favor of the home team. Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, before he was murdered by a radical Islamist in Amsterdam, was a poster boy for unconditional free speech. He said Muslims had sex with goats and that a Jewish writer with whom he disagreed had erotic dreams about Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele. He was never convicted under the Netherlands' statute banning "scornful blasphemy." The Justice Minister proposed reviving the law in the wake of his death, to use against the kind of offensive speech Van Gogh...
Brin, 32, has also been precocious all his life. Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Brin fled Russia with his parents amid rising anti-Semitism in the late 1970s and settled in the U.S. Brin's father Michael teaches applied probability and statistics at the University of Maryland; his mother works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken...
...DIED. NADIRA, 74, one of only a handful of Jewish actresses in Bollywood; in Bombay. Born Florence Ezekiel to a Jewish family in Bombay, Nadira made a name for herself in the 1950s playing vamps and villains-in particular as a temptress wooing Raj Kapoor in 1955's Shree 420-in an era when most actresses shied away from such parts. She appeared in more than 60 films and was famed for her imperious on-set attitude. "How did you know I had given you permission to scold me?" she once responded to a director who had lost his temper...
...possibly be considered a supporter of terrorism or a national security risk because Ramadan has condemned acts of violence by Islamic extremists and has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue. Eck suggested that Ramadan’s criticisms of American foreign policy, and his suggestion that certain prominent French Jewish intellectuals were inappropriately biased toward Israel, might explain the revocation of his visa. “If we’re going to start suppressing the kinds of speech Tariq Ramadan has engaged in, we’re going to have to suppress a great deal of the speech that?...